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“Mother, the state of your body has a direct effect on my appearance. This is because my entire existence depends on you.”
The head said, “I may have been birthed a different way from that child, but I, too, am your creation, Mother.”
But the gynecologist’s office was not a place a young unmarried woman could visit without feeling oddly guilty.
“You’re the one who overdid it with the pills—it’s your own fault. Medicine isn’t candy you can gorge on whenever you feel like it.”
“You’re carrying a child—of course the child needs a father!”
“Nothing in life is easy! Did you really think pregnancy would be easy? What are you trying to do about it? Do you have any idea how little time you have left?”
“If this is your attitude now, what kind of a mother do you think you’re going to be? Think about it. There’s a new life growing in your belly right this minute. A human being is being created. You have to take responsibility for an entire human being! But if you’re this nonchalant at the fetus’s development stage, what are you going to do once you give birth?”
His daughter existed in a completely different way than ordinary girls her age, and thus, like a dark forest beneath the moonlight, her lack of emotion and secretive mystery exuded a certain seductive charm.
